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...THIS FAR: It isn't a feel-good movie. But it is a movie it feels good to vote for: attractive representatives of a discriminated-against minority find a few moments of happiness in a more repressive America before tragedy claims them. Now, in a somewhat more enlightened era, we are made to feel pity and even a touch of terror for them. Shrewdly positioned as a romance rather than a message movie, Brokeback comes at us quietly. We really like these guys--one rough-hewn and silent, the other eager and somewhat unformed--and the picture's unforced, almost...
...MIGHT STOP HERE: The Academy remains a somewhat conservative body, and although this is a handsome and superbly acted film, it may not yet wish to endorse that "gay cowboy" movie. The film is also rather inarticulate--to some, one of its most touching strengths--and traditionally the Academy has preferred entertainments that state their business with a big thumping inspirational speech that is never spoken here...
...fact that neo-liberal economists do their best to couch their policies in terms of “development” and “poverty reduction,” suggests that the human rights cause has solidly won the battle for public sentiment. Hence, it may seem somewhat pointless to ask whether we have an obligation to be ethical consumers...
...playing a fifteen-minute gig, and it’s a lot to ask of our fans to come all the way from Harvard, plus pay the club’s admission, to see that,” But later in the interview with The Crimson, he gives a somewhat different view on the purpose of live shows. “You get big by performing and showing promoters that you’re good and that you have a following,” he says. Blanks.’ did not seem affected by the crowd?...
...This was not like the patient had diabetes and we knew there was a problem.”Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, like Goldin and others, called on the president’s critics to lay out their specific concerns.“People are somewhat befuddled and bewildered by the current responses,” Katz said.During last year’s crisis, Goldin said, people had “real gripes”—“I would talk to them and try to understand it.”Those gripes, Goldin...